Linux popen() alternative

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According to the people here you can use "start /b " to not open a command prompt on windows.

You could possible use:

local cmdline = -- the command string

if (cFile:GetPathSeparator() == "\\") then
   -- Windows
   cmdline = "start /b " .. cmdline -- Put "> nul" after this if you don't want to have the output in the current console.
else
   -- Other platforms
   cmdline = cmdline .. " &"
end

os.execute(cmdline)